Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. “You really don’t get this bodyguard thing, do you?””I didn’t even think you liked me all that much,” said Simon. “Is this one of those...

If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me

But they love each other. Isn’t that what love means? That you’re supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

They think they’re better than everyone else.””No,” said Jace. “I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.” Kyle looked at Simon. “Does he always talk like...

What about you, little girl? You going to be a Shadowhunter like your dad?”Clary tried to hide her annoyance. “No,” she said. “I’m going to be a Shadowhunter, but I’m not going to be like...

I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He’s my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

You look lousy,’ he said. Jace blinked. ‘Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.”No I mean it. You don’t look good.”This is...

since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Is this the part where you tell me you’re secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it’s you, and I realize now that I won’t be anymore ready to...

You’re a public menace. You shouldn’t be allowed out on your own.

If we’re going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don’t know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of...

No. That’s Clary; shes’s my best friend.” Simon pocketed his phone. “And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids ‘Timmy Has Two Dads’. Except I don’t think they have one called ‘Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil’....

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.